The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-21
Her Remarkable Career Reviewed by
Chicago Paper.
From the Chicago Herald.

Her Remarkable Career Reviewed by
Chicago Paper.
From, the Chicago Herald.
The most talked-of woman in Cincinnati
Just now is Miss Josie Holmes A few weeks
ago, when she stood at the exchange window
in the Fidelity National Bank, she attractd
but passing attention. There are probably
great many people who did business with
the Fidelity who can not remember whether
it was man or @ woman who made out the
drafts they purchased. Now that the FL
deity has gone up in the wheat deal and its
manager and responsible head, E. L. Har-
per, occupies cell in the Jail, Miss Holmes,
who probably enjoyed his confidence and
his favors to a greater extent than any other
human being, is an object OF absorbing in
terest.
The newspapers have alluded to Miss
Holmes as the fair prisoner"
"a voLUPTUoUs BEAUTY"
ETC. Sheis nothing of the sort. Miss Josie
is ordinarily good-looking, that is ALL Dur
ing the excitement attendant upon the wheat
deal the Herald correspondent visited the
bank every day, and had occasion to study
the young lady closely. Her post of duty
was within few feet of Mr.. Harper's pri-
vate desk, and other clerks in the bank soon
became familiar with the fact that the
manager had no secrets to keep from her.
He would swear like a Turk in her pres.
ence when any thing went wrong, and
other attaches of the institution, noting
this fact,
WOULD DO LITTLE CUSSING
in the lady's presence themselves without
meeting with serious consequences. While
Miss Holmes was not a ravishing beauty,
she presented by no means a displeasing fig
ure as she stood at the exchange desk. AS
the caller would wait for his draft on New
York, Chicago, or some foreign exchange tC
be made out, he could study in the aperture
before him an olive complexion, an abund
ance of dark-brown hair and pair of haze
eyes. If the exchange clerk had occasion
to move about little, as was often the case,
the well-rounded figure of young woman
of % years, five feet four inches in height
and Weighing $50 pounds would burst
into full view through the glass parti
ton.
The young woman wrote rapidly, and hel
penmanship was first-class. There was moth
ing feminine about it. 1t resembled greatly
that of an expert accountant, who writes
hastily but is yet careful about the fornia
ton of every letter. She was uniformly pc
lite and courteous to the patrons OF the bank
with whom she came in contact, but there
was often a smile of supreme self-satlsfac
ton OH her lips The Herald correspondent
distinctly remembers one occasion when thai
smile broke
INTO LITTLE RIPPING LAUGH,
which, strange to say, grated harshly on thu
reportorial ear. He had occasion to ash
what was the trouble with the drafts sent tC
Chicago by Wiltshire, when Ben Hopkins
now in jail, warned the visitor that n
would be held personally responsible II he
alluded to the matter in print. As BenJa-
min was on the inside OF the partition wher
this dire threat was made, and as the gentle
Josie knew him pretty well any how, th'
remark excited her Iisibilities.
The first record an admiring constituency
has of Miss Holmes begins with about eight
years ago, when, as a girl Of 4, she became
the private secretary OF Ir. u. b. Wolfe,
wealthy Spiritualistic physician. She mus
have given moro than usual satisfaction, be
cause she remained in the doctors employ
nearly seven years A year ago last Marct
Miss Holmes drifted TO the Fidelity Bank, NJ
exchange clerk, having probably received
more advantageous offer. On the pay-roiI
Of the institution her salary was shown q
be 81 900 year, but shortly after assuming
the duties Of her new position, though th'
family had received no sudden accession o.
fortune, Miss Holmes and her Widowed
mother
MOVED INTO A HANDSOME COTTAGE.
In Avondale, which wns furnished through
out with new and costly furniture, ltsooi
became apparent 20 the clerks IA The bani
that Miss Josie Was "a excellent terms VIII
the head of the knstitutioD. When he drop
ped little 4maafk one day 10 whieh sh'